An intent-based approach for creating assistive robots' control systems
This work addresses the challenge of human-machine interaction in assistive robotics, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing intent-based methods without major breakthroughs.
The authors tackled the problem of developing general control systems for assistive robots by proposing an intent-based approach that reacts to user inputs like voice commands or buttons, and they applied it to a customized TIAGo robot with hardware components, demonstrating the need for diverse human-machine interfaces.
The current research standards in robotics demand general approaches to robots' controllers development. In the assistive robotics domain, the human-machine interaction plays a substantial role. Especially, the humans generate intents that affect robot control system. In the article an approach is presented for creating control systems for assistive robots, which reacts to users' intents delivered by voice commands, buttons, or an operator console. The whole approach was applied to the real system consisting of customised TIAGo robot and additional hardware components. The exemplary experiments performed on the platform illustrate the motivation for diversification of human-machine interfaces in assistive robots.